Amos Tversky 2026-10-24
A cognitive psychologist who investigated prediction, similarity judgments and the use of base rates.[ref]
Eleanor Rosch 2026-10-24
A cognitive psychologist who investigated category typicality, family resemblance and the internal structure of natural categories.[ref]
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Portrait of Eleanor Rosch
. Photographer unidentified by the source. CC0 1.0; cropped portrait, via Wikimedia Commons. Source.
Gerd Gigerenzer 2026-10-24
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Portrait of Gerd Gigerenzer
. Stephan Röhl / Heinrich-Böll-Stiftung. CC BY-SA 2.0; cropped portrait, via Wikimedia Commons. Source.
James L. McClelland 2026-10-25
A cognitive psychologist whose research includes distributed representations, learning and memory.[ref]
Figure 1. . Jussi Puikkonen/KNAW. CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons. Source.
Michael I. Posner 2026-10-24
A cognitive psychologist who tested abstraction through transfer from learned dot-pattern distortions to unseen concept prototypes.[ref]
Robert M. Nosofsky 2026-10-24
A cognitive psychologist who developed exemplar theory linking classification, similarity and selective attention.[ref]
Sharon Lee Armstrong 2026-10-24
A cognitive psychologist who investigated how graded category typicality can coexist with sharply defined membership criteria.[ref]
Wim De Neys 2026-10-24
A cognitive psychologist who investigated conflict detection when stereotypical descriptions and base rates favor different answers.[ref]